The Motives behind Genocide

Praise be to Allah (SWT) and peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

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The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and Reconciliation between your Two (contending) brothers; And fear God, that ye May receive Mercy. [Hujurāt, 49:10]

Muhammad (PBUH) stated: “The blood of a Muslim is more sacred than the Ka’bah and its surroundings.”

Acts of genocide are currently taking place around the world against ethnic minorities, particularly aimed at Muslims. One common denominator among the perpetrators and transgressors of the Genocide Convention, are their links among each other and with the Zionist state of Israel.

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When it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth” they say: “Why we only want to make peace!” [Al Baqara, 2:11]

According to research, genocide contains 10 stages which might not necessarily be consecutive but can be carried out simultaneously. Generally speaking, a genocide is defined as the methodical destruction of a people of different ethnicity, religion or culture, based on an elaborate plan which involves violent physical elimination. According to the President of Genocide Watch Group, a genocide is not an event but a process; a series of actions with one main objective: the extermination of a particular ethnic group.

There are several similarities among the methods used by Israel, and other countries carrying out genocidal acts, such as China, India and Myanmar.

The first step is the denial of citizenship of the targeted group. Israel, the interloper, denies Palestinians their right to Palestinian citizenship, calling then animals. For instance, the Abraham Accords, aim to erase the events that led to Palestinians becoming refugees from the Palestinian collective memory.

The revocation of autonomy from Kashmir by the Indian government, aiming at the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region, would be an act carried out in the same vein as the removal of Indian citizenship from Muslims, originally from Bangladesh, living in Assam, through the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.

In Myanmar, similar measures were adopted by the military junta to commit acts of genocide against Muslims, whereby Rohingyas experienced a quasi-similar situation. They were at first declared non-citizens, then removed by violent force and genocide.

Another similarity between genocidal acts carried out by Israel, Myanmar and India is the destruction of indigenous homes by excavators. In Israel, Palestinian homes were destroyed by JCB machinery to make way for Jewish colonisers and their illegal occupation of the lands. The same thing happened in India, where the ruling party destroyed homes and businesses of Muslims in Delhi, making the JCB brand notorious. This particular situation was condemned by activist and author Arundhati Roy, who qualified the act as one of genocide.

To eliminate Rohingyas, the military junta of Myanmar set fire to 200 villages, killing 13,000 Rohingyas. In August 2017, more than 740,000 Muslim Rohingyas were forced out of their country following the decision of the military officials of the Myanmar Buddhist regime to shoot Rohingyas on sight and to set fire to their houses. The military junta went a step further in the ethnic cleansing process. It set fire to not only homes but also plantations so that Rohingyas never come back to their lands.

Similar to India, Myanmar has always considered Rohingyas as “Bengalis”, despite the latter having lived in the country for generations. They have been deprived of their citizenship under the Citizenship Law since 1982. Moreover, in an attempt to copy the South African apartheid, the junta declared some regions of the country as Muslim-free zones.

Another common denominator observed among Israel, Myanmar and India is the fact that these countries share a close relationship among themselves. It is a fact that India as well as Myanmar are major buyers of weapons from Israel. In The Palestinian Laboratory, proof in hand, the author accuses Israel of selling weapons to Myanmar to exterminate Rohingyas. The international press rarely talks about the huge profits of arms dealers involved in ethnic cleansing.

The facts are overwhelming: perpetrators of genocide are guilty of war crimes. India, Myanmar, and China, similar to Zionists, are fueled by atrocious racism. Apart from Communist China, the other countries are far-right atheist extremists.

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O ye who believe! take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: do ye wish to offer God an open proof against yourselves? [An-Nisāa, 4:144]

To come back to the process of genocide, it is noteworthy to state the critical junctures that make it up. The first step is the classification of two distinct groups: them and us, then comes the process of representation: the naming of the opposite groups.

The subsequent steps are more radical, ranging from discrimination and dehumanization as the apartheid carried out by Israel, the setting up of hate groups such as the castigators of love jihad, in India. After that, or simultaneously, the segmentation, targeting the moderates, the planning of physical elimination, persecution, as in Israel and China, and followed by extermination based on religion, race or ethnicity. The whole process is then capped off with denial to be protected from international prosecution.

We cannot deny the other side of genocide, the one committed by Muslims against Muslims such as the genocide carried out by the ruling government in Yemen, helped by Saudi Arabia and its Western allies, against Houthis. Based on the Sunni-Shia rivalry, the motivation behind this act of genocide is different. However, the destruction of more than half of medical facilities, the bombing of school buses and famine need to be highlighted. As in Gaza, a child dies every ten minutes in Yemen. Despite the famine and the bombing of a school bus, countries like France, Canada and the USA or the UK keep on providing millions of Euros worth of tanks and missiles to Saudi Arabia. During the 7 years of Yemeni crisis, 20,000 civilians have been killed, more that 3.6 million forcibly displaced from their homes. More than 80% of the population need humanitarian aid. Yemenites are not dying, they are being left to die.

It must be acknowledged that genocide can only be eliminated by popular resistance against any form of discrimination, dehumanization, hate speech, denunciation of political parties engaging in hate speech, racism and xenophobia.

Muslims need to be able to stand against discrimination, hate and tyranny.

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You are the best of peoples evolved for mankind enjoining what is right forbidding what is wrong and believing in God […] [Āl-i- ‘Imrān, 3:110]